George Bernard Shaw Quotes

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Avoid miscommunication. The price you pay for it is horrendous.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.

The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.

I think, in general, it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings - and the Web's a form of communications - so it generally should be good.

The message sent is not always the message received.

A mutual misunderstanding.

The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

I have to be clear with myself and very conscious of what I am trying to say. Misunderstandings will always take place; it's unavoidable.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

If what is said does not concord with what was meant, what is to be done cannot be effected.

I really hate misunderstandings - to a degree that it's hard for me to watch sitcoms, or any kind of funny movie where there's, like, this big mishap, or miscommunication. It gives me such anxiety that I almost can't make it through the movie.